users connection speed

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users connection speed

Hey all, I was wondering if there is anyway to check for a users connection speed before loading a webpage. Basically, I want to bring an appropriate page to the user, depending on their connection speed right as they log into my site. I imagine this has to e a rather quick technique as to avoid any pauses before loading.

Would some sort of jscript be efficient, or do i have to use a more advanced language?

Use any serverside language, and instead of detecting connection speed, detect it relative to how long it takes to load a small file. Create the file as an object in the client data space
(ie: var something=somefile).
Start a counter on the server side. Have the client script tell you when it loaded the object. Look at your counter, load whatever based on that.